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This is the Computer Museum in Boston.
There's no

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other place quite like it in the world.

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It's two computer buffs.
What the Hall of Fame in

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Cooperstown is to baseball fans.

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The whole history of computers is inside here.

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But today the Computer Museum
is doing something special.

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They're putting on the first ever
Computer Bowl with a team of top computer

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celebrities from the Silicon Valley taking
on a group of computer experts from

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the Route 128 area here in Boston to
see who knows more about computers.

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Today, part one of the first ever Computer
Bowl, the East against the West, on

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this special edition of
the Computer Chronicles.

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The Computer Chronicles is made possible
in part by McGraw-Hill, publishers of

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Byte Magazine and Bix,
the Byte Information Exchange.

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In print and online, Byte and Bix serve
computer professionals worldwide with

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detailed information on new hardware,
software and technologies.

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Welcome to the Computer Chronicles.
I'm Stuart Chafay. With

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me this week is Esther Dyson.

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Esther, we're here in the auditorium of
the Boston World Trade Center for the

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Computer Bowl to see how much you guys
really do know about computers here as

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your East Coast team takes on
David Vannell's West Coast team.

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The point of the Computer Bowl is really
to raise money here for a Junior Bowl

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series of programs to help teach
high school kids about computers.

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October happens to be, appropriately enough,
Computer Learning Month.

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I was wondering how you think we're doing
this country at the high school level

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to teach our students about computers.

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Well,
I think this is a sign we still need to do

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more, but it's starting to happen.

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Computers are turning up in schools,
teachers are learning how to use them,

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students are understanding they
need them not just to study

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about computers, but to use computers.

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They're going to use them in college,
they're going to use them

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in their jobs and maybe even at home.

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And things like this are helping,
I think, to raise

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some of the enthusiasm that we need.

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Esther, good luck to you and your East
Coast team. We're ready to start the

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Computer Bowl Part One in just a moment.

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So stay with us.

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On behalf of the Computer Museum,
welcome to the world's first Computer Bowl.

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Thank you.

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My name is Chris Morgan.

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And you know, there's always been a
friendly rivalry of sorts, sometimes not so

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friendly,
between the computer people on the East

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Coast and the ones on the West Coast.

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But which group really has the
sharpest computer experts?

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We'll try to answer that question today
as we pit the East Coast against the West

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Coast in a high-tech showdown for the
title of Computer Masters of the Universe.

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Now let's meet our panelists.

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There's some of the best-known
people in the computer industry.

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For the West Coast, Dr. Adele Goldberg,
president and CEO of Park Place Systems,

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specializing in object-oriented
software development systems.

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Next we have Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun
Microsystems, a Silicon Valley company

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making desktop workstations.

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Next, Casey Powell, president and CEO of
Sequence Computers Incorporated, makers

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of multi-processor mini-computers.

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Then we have Alan Michaels,
chairman and CEO of Ardent Computer Company,

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developers and manufacturers
of graphics supercomputers.

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Our captain for the West Coast team is
David Bunnell, chairman and CEO of PCW

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Communications, publishers of PC World,
Mac World and other computer periodicals.

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And now the East Coast team, beginning
with Esther Dyson, software expert and

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editor-publisher of the computer newsletter,
released 1.0.

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Next, Mitchell Capor,
chairman of OnTechnology and founder

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of Lotus Development Corporation.

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David Hathaway, partner of Venrock Associates,
a venture capital firm best known

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for their investments in
Apple Computer and Intel.

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Bill Pedusco, chairman and CEO of
Stellar Computer, developers of graphics

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superwork stations for
engineering and scientists.

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And our team captain for the East Coast
is Dick Shafer, editor-publisher of the

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Technologic Computer Letter
and former technology

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columnist for the Wall Street Journal.

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So a big welcome for all of you.

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Now it's my great pleasure
to introduce the man who

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will be asking the questions tonight.

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Someone who covers the high-tech field for
a living, please welcome our examiner,

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the editor and publisher of the San
Francisco Examiner, William Hearst III.

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I'm ready, Will.

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Let's start right in.

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First, a little microcomputer history.

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Dick Heiser opened the world's first
microcomputer store in West Los

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Angeles in 1975.

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For ten points, was it called Computer Land,
the itty-bitty computer

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company, or the computer store?

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West Coast, Benel.

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The computer store.

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Yes.

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All right.

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Okay, that's ten to nothing for the West Side.

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Ten-point question.

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Who wrote the first book about
personal computers in 1974?

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West Coast, Joy.

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Oh, Ted Hoff.

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[...]

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East Coast, K-POR.

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Yeah, Ted Nelson,
Computer Live and Dream Machines.

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This is a ten-point question.

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How long would it take to send the
Encyclopedia Britannica over a two

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-gigabit fiber optic cable?

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Would it be two seconds,
two minutes, or 20 minutes?

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East Coast, K-POR.

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Two seconds.

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All right.

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All right, this is a toss-up question.

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For ten points, the letters in most
software languages form acronyms.

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Which of the following two
language names is not an acronym?

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Fortran or ADA?

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West Coast, Joy.

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All right, now we have a bonus round.

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For five points apiece, we'll name the people,
and you name the computer

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languages they invented.

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You can consult.

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Kenneth Iverson.

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APL.

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This computer technology needs work here.

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John Bacas.

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Why can't we hear the West Coast
cheer when we get these right?

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When the East Coast gets one right,
we hear the East Coast cheer.

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Fortran.

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The answer is Fortran.

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Fortran is correct.

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John McCarthy.

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Oh, Lisp.

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Nicholas Veerth.

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Pascal.

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All right, this is an individual question.

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Either side may answer.

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What high-tech company determined
whether the 18.5-minute gap

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in the Nixon tape was deliberate?

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East Coast, Tapeword.

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Both Brannock and Newman.

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Fast response.

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And now the score is the West Team 55
points and the East Coast 30 points.

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It's close, folks. It's close.

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All right, this is a toss-up question.

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Life is a well-known computer game.

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Of the following three people who won
Scientific American's Game of Life contest

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by creating the first glider gun?

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Was it Bill Gosper, Donald Knuth, or David All?

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East Coast, Tapeword.

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Gosper.

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Okay, we're in the bonus round.

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We're in the bonus round and you can consult.

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I had $1,000 a day.

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Here's a four-part question, four questions

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actually, about computers in the movies.

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First, in what Disney movie do the main
characters live inside a computer?

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Tron.

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What was the name of the robot in the
film The Day the Earth Stood Still?

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Was it Robbie, Gort, or Brainiac?

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Robbie.

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Correct answer was?

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Gort.

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What computer co-starred with Robert
Redford in the film Three Days of the

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Condor, a PDP-11, an Apple II, or a Cray-1?

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PDP-11.

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Very good.

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Finally, what company worked with Disney
to supply effects for the animated

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cartoon classic Fantasia?

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Was it IBM, Hewlett-Packard, or Sperry Rand?

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Sperry.

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Hewlett-Packard is the correct answer.

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All right.

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Okay, everybody.

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We're out of the bonus round.
Back to a ten-point

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question. Either side may answer.

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What was the first name of the
inventor of Boolean algebra?

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East Coast, Shafer.

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George.

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George Boulders-Grace.

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Okay, it's the East Coast 60, the

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West Coast 55.

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[...]

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Dartmouth College is famous for many computer

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-firsts.

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Let him guess.

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I'm sorry, you interrupted us and you
were incorrect, so we'll have to...

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We posed the question of the East.

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Yes, after we deduct ten points
from the West Coast score.

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Well, you have to be heartless sometimes.

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Dartmouth College is famous for many
computer-firsts for ten points of the

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following three pioneering events,
which did not take place at Dartmouth.

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A classic East Coast question.

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And here are the three.

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The first remote computer link-up,
the first AI workshop, or

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the first color video terminal?

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East Coast, K-POR.

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First color video terminal.

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Okay, we'll stop just for a
second now to tell you that the

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score is the East Coast 70.

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The West Coast 45.

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We'll continue with the history question now.

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Many people believe that ENIAC was the
first electronic digital computer, but a

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recent article in Scientific American
claims this honor should really

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go to another computer pioneer.

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For ten points,
is this person Stibitz at the Nassauf...

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East Coast, K-POR.

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At the Nassauf.

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That's correct.

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That was serious.

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We're using polling logic here
to get the right answers.

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For ten points.

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The word modem is formed from what two words?

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East Coast, K-POR.

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Modulator, demodulator.

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Can we have a timeout?

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The score.

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The score is the East Coast 90,
the West Coast 45.

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And that's the signal for
the end of the first round.

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Is there a difference in the altitude here?

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Here at the Computer Bowl,
we're ready to start round two

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of this battle of computer wits.

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And right now, the East Coast team is ahead.

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Let's go back to our examiner,
Will Hurst, and our MC, Chris Morgan.

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All right, let's go on now to round two.

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Will?

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All right, for ten points,
what was the first home computer

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to sell a million units?

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Was it the Apple II?

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The East Coast, K-POR.

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I'm sorry, we'll have to deduct ten points
from the East Coast score and repeat

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the entire question for the West Coast.

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For ten points, what was the first
home computer to sell a million units?

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Was it the Apple II?

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The Commodore VIC-20 or the TRS-80?

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[...] Coast, Benel.

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Commodore VIC-20?

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That's correct.

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That was only ten points?

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The Pizza Time restaurant chain was
started by Atari founder Nolan Bushnell.

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West Coast, Powell.

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Your answer, please.

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Well, give it a try, Casey.

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I don't get to confer on this one, huh?

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Chucky cheese.

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Good guess.

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Just so you'll know, Casey, the question was...

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Thank you very much.

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My children will be pleased
to hear I got that right.

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Now we have a regular ten-point question,
either side may answer.

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For ten points, is Rocky's Boots a program
to teach children logic, a walking

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robot or a PC bootstrap program?

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East Coast, Dyson.

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Teach children logic.

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Yes, that's correct.

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Now we have a toss-up question.

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I have a portable gadget here to
show you as part of this question.

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Okay. Go ahead, Will.

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During World War II, the Allies used
computers to decode secret messages written

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by the Nazis on machines like this.

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For ten points, was this machine
called the Ultra, the Ace or the...

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West Coast, Joy.

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The Enigma.

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[...]

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The Bomb and Colossus are
names of two computing devices

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developed during World War II.

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For ten points, were they used for
designing the A-bomb for cryptography

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or for designing a radar?

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Talk it over.

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Cryptography.

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Yeah!

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[...]

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This is not portable.

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It weighs about 70 pounds.

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Let me just tuck it under
here and we'll continue.

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It's an individual question,
either side may answer.

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For ten points,
what was the first software company to go

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public on the New York Stock Exchange?

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East Coast, Shafer.

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Cullinan.

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Under the store.

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Yes.

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Okay, it's close.

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It's the East Coast 100, the West Coast 95.

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For ten points,
which of the following did Bill Gates not do?

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A, drop out of Harvard.

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B, program the PDP-10.

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Or C,
have a thousand person 25th birthday party.

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East Coast, Cape Ward.

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Have a thousand person 25th birthday party?

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Correct.

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For ten points,
who co-founded Microsoft along with Bill Gates?

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East Coast, Cape Ward.

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Paul Allen.

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Yes.

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For ten points, are computers mentioned
anywhere in George Orwell's 1984?

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East Coast, Cape Ward.

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In 1888,
William Burroughs was granted a patent.

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For ten points, was it for the printing
adding machine, the difference

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engine, or the punched card?

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East Coast, Shafer.

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Printing adding machine.

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That's correct.

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For ten points,
how far can electricity travel in a nanosecond?

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West Coast, Powell.

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One foot.

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We have a slightly different...

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Three quarters of a foot
through physical media.

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We have a slightly different answer.

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Did you say three quarters of a foot?

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Three quarters of a foot through
physical media, one foot theoretically.

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All right, averaging those two answers.

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We'll talk to the judges and the judge says,
yes, we'll give it to you.

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We had three choices, 1.8 inches, 10.
8 inches, or 108 inches.

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All right, for ten points,
this is an individual

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question, either side may answer.

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Is Caduceus a high-level language,
a data general computer,

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or a medical diagnosis...

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East Coast, Cape Ward.
...medical expert system?

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Yeah.

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[...]

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Now, there's a bonus round coming
up about famous computer books.

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But first, this ten-point toss-up question
that gets you into the bonus round.

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What book about computers
won the Pulitzer Prize?

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East Coast, Hathaway.

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Soul of New Machine.

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All right, in this bonus round,
for five points apiece, you may consult.

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Tell us who wrote the following books.

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The Art of Computer Programming.

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Donald Knuth.

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The Third Apple.

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Jean-Louis Gessin.

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Jean-Louis Gessin.

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The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise.

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[...]

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May we have your answer, please?

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Knight and Bridgewater.

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What was the answer?

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Knight and Bridgewater.

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The answer was Charles Babbage.

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Okay, the score.

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The score is the East Coast,
170 and the West Coast, 105.

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We're going to have to get on the stick,
West Coast.

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That's okay.

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All right, let's move along.

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For ten points, either side may answer.

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A rectifier changes AC current to DC.

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What does an inverter do?

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East Coast, Pedasco.

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An inverter converges DC to AC.

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[...]

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For ten points, Ivan Sutherland described
the first interactive graphics program.

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East Coast, Cape War.

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Sketchpad.

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Telephone call in the lobby for Mitch Cape War.

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That's the end of the round and the score
is East Coast, 190, West Coast, 115.

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That's the first half of the
Computer Bowl and at halftime,

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the East Coast has the lead.

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We'll have the final rounds
of the Computer Bowl.

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Be sure to join us right here next
week on The Computer Chronicles.

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In the random access file this week,
Compaq has finally introduced its

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long-awaited laptop computer.

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The machine is called the SLT286.

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It features the 8286 chip
running at 8 or 12 megahertz.

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It has a detachable keyboard.

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It weighs in at 14 pounds and runs on a nickel,
cadmium battery pack with an

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estimated 3 hours of use per charge.

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The screen is a super twist LCD
with a high resolution of 640x480

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with eight shades of gray.

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The Compaq SLT286 comes with one 3.
5 inch floppy and a 20

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or 40 megabyte hard drive.

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The price begins at 5400.

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Compaq said it did not plan to bring
out a 386 laptop until it could

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solve the problem of battery power.

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Existing 386 laptops only get about
one hour of use per battery charge.

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Meanwhile, elsewhere on the laptop front,
Grid unveiled its new 386 laptop.

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It comes with two IBM-type expansion slots,
base price $7500.

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Sharp introduced a 286 laptop with
VGA emulation and 16 levels of gray,

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price $5600.

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And in Tokyo, the Seiko Epson company said
it'll be coming out next year with the

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first color laptop, featuring a
screen that can display 4,000 colors.

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Seiko said the price will be $7800.

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It will use the 286 chip.

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The reviews are slowly coming in on Steve Jobs'
next computer, and they are mixed

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in general praise for a nice packaging
of existing hardware technology, an

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excellent user interface for Unix,
but concerns about the small potential market

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and whether or not there will
be enough software support.

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Another concern was the lack of a traditional
disk drive, forcing developers to

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offer software on an expensive optical
disk or via the Ethernet port.

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However, the next deal with IBM for use
of the Next Step interface on IBM's Unix

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machines may motivate programmers
to write for the next computer.

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The big question for most observers was,
will the next be another

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Macintosh or another Lisa?

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EverX has introduced the most powerful
PC ever using the new Intel 8386SX chip.

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It's called the Step 386IS, and it clocks
in at 3.2 mips compared to 2.5 mips for

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the new Compaq DeskPro 386.

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The EverX machine is priced at
$3300 compared to $3800 for the Compaq.

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The NixDORF computer company says it
has developed a new computerized voting

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machine that represents the first new
technology in voting machines since the

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machine was invented 100
years ago by Thomas Edison.

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The NixDORF voting machine
is a touch screen terminal

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much like your bank's ATM machine.

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There are no punched cards, no printed ballots,
and the voting machine can easily

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display information in any language.

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The NixDORF voting machine also features
pictures of the candidates on the CRT

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and the ability to easily
enter write-in candidates.

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Finally, a team of computer researchers
has set a record for factoring the

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largest number ever,
a 100-digit number, and they did it

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without using a supercomputer.

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It took them a month and they used some
400 regular computers to do the job.

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The 100-digit number was broken down into
two prime factors, one 41 digits long

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and the other 60 digits long, and there
actually may be some practical value in

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all this since government cryptographers
use supposedly unfactorable large prime

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numbers in developing code systems.

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That's it for this week's Chronicles.
We'll see you next time.

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